Six-tune music box with bells and drum; various wood species

Wood, crank-lever winding, rectangular-shaped, musical box playing six tunes in sequence or repeat, on a pinned brass cylinder (27.2 cm.) with 100 tuned vibrating teeth (8, 84 and 6), a set of bells with six hammers and a drum:

· “The Fair” from Faust by Charles Gounod

· “Figaro’s aria” from The Barber of Seville byGioachino Rossini

· “Brindisi” from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi

· “Excelsior” by Maremod

· “The Silvery Moon” by Baker

· “The Shepherd’s Song” by Jacques Offenbach

Cabinet in partially blackened wood in imitation of ebony veneer, with marquetry of various wood species on the outside.

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